AEA Sessions from the 2022 ASSA Annual Meeting

January 07 — 09

Enjoy our library of recorded videos from the 2022 ASSA Annual Meeting.

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Sessions found: 147

Environmental Externalities: The Role of Information, Standards and Enforcement

Chair:
Christian Leuz
Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient? —
Mark Jacobsen
, James Sallee
, Joseph S. Shapiro
, and Arthur van Benthem
Does Public Participation Matter? Evidence from a National-Scale Experiment on the Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in China —
Mark Buntaine
, Michael Greenstone
, Shaoda Wang
, Mengdi Liu
, and Bing Zhang
Internalizing Externalities Disclosure Regulation for Hydraulic Fracturing, Drilling Activity and Water Quality —
Pietro Bonetti
, Christian Leuz
, and Giovanna Michelon
Inequality, Information Failures and Air Pollution —
Catherine Hausman
and Samuel Stolper

Estimation of Dynamic Causal Effects in Macro: Promises and Pitfalls

Chair:
Emi Nakamura
Structural Vector Autoregressions with Imperfect Identifying Information —
Christiane Baumeister
and James D. Hamilton
What Can We Learn from Sign-Restricted VARs? —
Christian K. Wolf
Signing Out Confounding Shocks in Variance-Maximizing Identifications —
Neville Francis
and Gene Kindberg-Hanlon
SVAR Identification from Higher Moments: Has the Simultaneous Causality Problem Been Solved? —
José Luis Montiel Olea
, Mikkel Plagborg-Møller
, and Eric Qian

Ethics, Transparency and Innovation in Economics Publishing

Moderator:
Edward Miguel
Panelists:
Pinelopi Goldberg
,
Imran Rasul
,
Andrew Foster
, and
Jeannie Suk Gersen

European Economic Association Lecture

Presiding:
Imran Rasul
Speaker:
Jan Eeckhout

Evaluating and Incentivizing Ideas

Chair:
Kyle R. Myers
Financial and In-Kind Support for Alleviating Barriers to Innovation: Experimental Evidence from Innovation Contests —
Elizabeth Lyons
and Joshua Graff Zivin
Selecting Outlier Innovations: Experimental Evidence from a Global Pharmaceutical Firm —
Joshua Krieger
and Ramana Nanda
Generating Innovation in the Lab: A Randomized Controlled Experiment Inducing Novel Research in the Life Sciences —
Charles Ayoubi
, Kevin Boudreau
, Karim Lakhani
, and Jacqueline Lane
How Important is Editorial Gatekeeping? Evidence from Top Biomedical Journals —
Joshua Krieger
, Kyle R. Myers
, and Ariel Stern

Expectations and Macro-Finance

Chair:
Emi Nakamura
Learning about the Long Run —
Leland Farmer
, Emi Nakamura
, and Jon Steinsson
The Profit-Credit Cycle —
Bjorn Richter
and Kaspar Zimmermann
Expectations and Bank Lending —
Yueran Ma
, Teodora Paligorova
, and José-Luis Peydró
Robust Inattentive Discrete Choice —
Lars Peter Hansen

Expectations, Beliefs and Behaviors during the Pandemic

Chair:
Tao Wang
Biases in Information Selection and Processing: Survey Evidence from the Pandemic —
Basit A. Khan Zafar
, Ester Faia
, Andreas Fuster
, and Vincenzo Pezone
Social Networks Shape Beliefs and Behavior: Evidence from Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic —
Michael Bailey
, Drew M. Johnston
, Martin Koenen
, Theresa Kuchler
, Johannes Stroebel
, and Dominic Russel
Information Resonance —
Ulrike Malmendier
and Laura Veldkamp
Learning from Friends in a Pandemic: Social Networks and the Macroeconomic Response of Consumption —
Tao Wang
and Christos Makridis

Experimenting with Diversity toward Equality in the Workplace

Chair:
Olga Shurchkov
When to Apply —
Katherine B. Coffman
, Manuela R. Collis
, and Leena Kulkarni
Competitiveness and Employability —
Elif E. Demiral
and Johanna Mollerstrom
Shine a Light (On the Bright): Awards and the Gender Gap In Knowledge Contributions in Stem —
Siri Isaksson
, Jana Gallus
, and Emma Heikensten
Who Values Diversity? —
Jeffrey Flory
, Andreas Leibbrandt
, Olga Shurchkov
, and Olga Stoddard
Does Competition Deter Women from Positions of Leadership? —
Daniel Jones
, Lise Vesterlund
, and Randy Walsh

Fertility

Chair:
Elizabeth Brainerd
Partisan Fertility and Presidential Elections —
Gordon Dahl
, William Mullins
, and Runjing Lu
The Effect of Abortion Legalization on Fertility, Marriage, and Long-Term Outcomes for Women —
Libertad Gonzalez
, Sergi Jiménez
, Judit Vall
, and Natalia Nollenberger
COVID-19 and the Future of U.S. Fertility: What Can We Learn from Google? —
Joshua Wilde
, Wei Chen
, and Sophie Lohmann
Blue Cross-Where Do I Go Now? The Role of Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Fertility Decisions —
Bela Figge
The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy —
Yana Gallen
, Juanna S. Joensen
, Eva Rye Johansen
, and Gregory Veramendi

Fertility, Family Planning, and Women’s Economic Well-being

Chair:
Martha Bailey
Abortion Access and Women’s Economic Outcomes —
Kelly M. Jones
and Mayra Pineda Torres
Out of Labor and into the Labor Force? The Role of Abortion Access, Social Stigma, and Financial Constraints —
Tom Zohar
and Nina Brooks
Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India —
S. Anukriti
, Catalina Herrera-Almanza
, and Mahesh Karra
Gender Disparities in Career Advancement Across the Transition to Parenthood: Evidence from the Marine Corps —
Jennifer Heissel
and Olivia Healy

Financial Technology, Access to Credit, and Behavioral Finance

Chair:
Amit Seru
The Online Payday Loan Premium —
Jialan Wang
, Peter Han
, and Filipe Correia
Why Are Firms Slow to Adopt Profitable Opportunities? —
Sean Higgins
, Paul Gertler
, Ulrike Malmendier
, and Waldo Ojeda
Can FinTech Reduce Disparities in Access to Finance? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program —
Isil Erel
and Jack Liebersohn
There's an App for That: Goal-Setting and Saving in the FinTech Era —
Alberto Rossi
and Antonio Gargano

Fiscal Policy

Chair:
Raphaelle G. Coulombe
How Do Firms Form Preferences about Fiscal Policy? —
Davud Rostam-Afschar
, Florian Buhlmann
, Fabian Eble
, Laura Arnemann
, Philipp Dörrenberg
, Christopher Karlsson
, and Johannes Voget
Shake me the money! —
Andrew C. Chang
, Francesco Porcelli
, and Riccardo Trezzi
A Model of Anticipated Consumption Tax Changes —
Masashi Hino
The Effects of Government Spending in the Eurozone —
Mathias Klein
, Ricardo Duque Gabriel
, and Ana Sofia Pessoa
Big G —
Lydia Cox
, Gernot Mueller
, Ernesto Pasten
, Raphael Schoenle
, and Michael Weber

Gangs and the Rule of Law

Chair:
Jonathan Kurzfeld
Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice —
Elliott Ash
, Daniel Chen
, and Suresh Naidu
Religious Leaders and Rule of Law —
Avner Seror
and Sultan Mehmood
Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance —
Santiago Tobon
, Christopher Blattman
, Gustavo Duncan
, and Benjamin Lessing
Competition in the Black Market: Estimating the Causal Effect of Gangs in Chicago —
Jesse Bruhn
Practice beyond Education: Legal Leaders and Institutions —
Craig Brown

Gender and Job Preferences: New Methods and Data

Chair:
Nicole Maestas
Wage Differentials and the Distribution of Job Amenity Values —
Marshall Drake
, Neil Thakral
, and Linh Tô
Preferences for Job Tasks and Gender Gaps in the Labor Market —
Madeleine Gelblum
What Do Jobseekers Want? Comparing Methods to Estimate Reservation Wages and the Value of Job Attributes —
Brian Feld
, AbdelRahman Nagy
, and Adam Osman

Gender and the Economics Profession

Chair:
Donna Ginther
Invisible Hurdles: Gender and Institutional Bias in the Publication Process in Economics —
Fulya Ersoy
and Jennifer Pate
Gender Differences in Economics Course-Taking and Majoring: Findings from an RCT —
Elizabeth Powers
, Daniel Halim
, and Rebecca Thornton
Who Are the More Dismal Economists? Gender and Language in Academic Economics Research —
Lea Kosnik
Diversity and Scholarship in Economics —
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
and Melanie Wasserman

Gender Differences in Labor Market Effects

Chair:
Johannes Schmieder
Stay or Go? Me or You? Occupational Licensure, Interstate Migration, and the Labor Market Outcomes of Husbands and Wives —
Janna E. Johnson
Selection, Time, and the Profile of Life Cycle Wages across Cohorts —
Richard Blundell
, Hugo Lopez Lopez
, and James P. Ziliak
The Geography of Jobs and the Gender Wage Gap —
Yichen Su
and Sitian Liu
Time Use and Happiness: Evidence across Three Decades —
Caspar Kaiser
and Jeehoon Han

Gendered Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chair:
Matthias Doepke
Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the U.S. during COVID-19 —
Bilge Erten
, Pinar Keskin
, and Silvia Prina
The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Time Use and Academic Research Productivity —
Tatyana Deryugina
, Olga Shurchkov
, and Jenna Stearns
The Impact of Covid-19 on Women’s Employment in Developing Countries —
Kristina Manysheva
, Matthias Doepke
, Michèle Tertilt
, and Titan Alon
COVID-19, Job Loss, and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru —
Jorge Agüero
, Erica Field
, Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado
, and Javier Romero

Global Value Chains, Trade and Productivity

Chair:
John Van Reenen
FDI and Superstar Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Transactions —
Mary Amiti
, Cedric Duprez
, Jozef Konings
, and John Van Reenen
Global Value Chain Tariffs: Implications for Trade Elasticities —
Rebecca Freeman
, Mario Larch
, Angelos Theodorakopoulos
, and Yoto Yotov
Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers —
Louise Guillouët
, Amit Khandelwal
, Rocco Macchiavello
, and Matthieu Teachout
Management in Mexico: Market Size, Frictions and Misallocation —
Nicholas Bloom
, Leonardo Iacovone
, Mariana Pereira-López
, and John Van Reenen

Government Support for Small Businesses

Chair:
Martina Jasova
Support for Small Businesses Amid COVID-19 —
Charles A.E. Goodhart
, Dimitrios P. Tsomocos
, and Xuan Wang
Motivating Banks to Lend? Understanding Bank Participation in the Main Street Lending Program —
Camelia Minoiu
, Rebecca Zarutskie
, and Andrei Zlate
The Impact of the Paycheck Protection Program on (Really) Small Businesses —
Allison Cole
Can the Federal Reserve Effectively Target Main Street? Evidence from the 1970s Recession —
John Kandrac

Hidden Debt

Chair:
Bulent Guler
Undisclosed Debt Sustainability —
Laura Alfaro
and Fabio Kanczuk
Asymmetric Information and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets Mexican Data —
Guillermo Ordoñez
, Harold Cole
, and Daniel Neuhann
Hidden Defaults —
Sebastian Horn
, Christoph Trebesch
, and Carmen M. Reinhart
Hidden Debt —
Bulent Guler
, Yasin Kursat Önder
, and Temel Taskin